Twitter Suspended 70 Million Accounts In Past Two Months, Says Report (theverge.com) 79
According to The Washington Post, Twitter has suspended 70 million accounts in the past two months as part of a crackdown on malicious activity on its platform. "The rate of suspensions for May and June is reportedly twice the company's October 2017 suspension rate," reports The Verge. From the report: In a blog post last month, Twitter said it had been working to improve its safety policies, and that its "systems identified and challenged more than 9.9 million potentially spammy or automated accounts per week."
The Post reports that the change in enforcement could cause a decline in users for the company's second quarter, although a Twitter executive told the publication that many of the accounts rarely tweeted, and would therefore not dramatically impact the company's active user count. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge that the company noted in its first-quarter shareholder letter this year that âoeongoing information quality effortsâ had negatively impacted monthly users, and that the efforts could continue to impact user numbers in the future.
The Post reports that the change in enforcement could cause a decline in users for the company's second quarter, although a Twitter executive told the publication that many of the accounts rarely tweeted, and would therefore not dramatically impact the company's active user count. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge that the company noted in its first-quarter shareholder letter this year that âoeongoing information quality effortsâ had negatively impacted monthly users, and that the efforts could continue to impact user numbers in the future.
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Dude, get a clue: People even accepted getting the annoying orange as a prez to avoid her.
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Some of them fit that description. You can't reach those people. But some of them are a different kind of idiot, the kind happy to do something, anything, even if it doesn't make sense, in the hope of an upset. Some of those people would have voted for Sanders (you know, the registered Democrats' choice for Democratic candidate) and said so loudly, then went on to loudly support Trump. Those people can be reached, with a sufficiently populist candidate, as Sanders proved.
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Instead they elected a leader who will never get above 43%
Just like he never had more than a 1% of winning.
Hell, even 43% is damn impressive given the constant propaganda by mainstream media. He's not that for off from Obama at the same time in his presidency and who got fellated non-stop and kept out of as many scandals as possible.
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Hell, even 43% is damn impressive given the constant propaganda by mainstream media.
No, 43% is damned pathetic given the constant propaganda by Faux News, the only channel that his supporters watch and/or believe. They are constantly jerking him off, but his approval is still that low?
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That's not just a failure of democracy, that's a failure of basic math, and an indication that something is very rotten in your country.
The USA is not and never has been a democracy. It is a republic on paper (which is a half-assed kind of "democracy" in which your votes don't really count anyway) and an oligarchy in fact. When it was founded, only racially privileged landowners had any vote at all, just like in ancient Greece. And just like ancient Rome, the dominant forces upon public opinion are bread and circuses.
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But some of them are a different kind of idiot, the kind happy to do something, anything, even if it doesn't make sense, in the hope of an upset.
So tell me what would have been better about a Clinton presidency. Would it have been Libya 2.0 in Syria? Staying with the joke that is the Paris Climate Accords? More Muslim immigration? More illegal immigrants? More Hillary hacking and coughing her way around the world, falling down some more stairs?
Oh, that's right, she would have been more "presidential".
Re: correct the record? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Just Californians. So many of you packed into those crowded spaces. It makes sense that you would all vote nutty.
Re: correct the record? (Score:1)
Why the homophobia? Does the idea that a guy might find you attractive scare you?
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Happened to me as well. (Score:3)
Happened to me as well a few times. Their algorithms need some work.
Biggest issue is that the unlock via a text message doesn't work (for me). You first have to click a captcha, then they want to send you a text to the number you registered. That then fails, with the message that they can't text to your carrier, even though I confirmed that number by a text sent by them... Then it takes support 2-3 days to unlock your account with apologies and the message that they don't reply to emails.
Not a big thing, it's just twitter, but crappy nonetheless for such a big name in social media
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Why would you give Twitter your phone number? :O
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Please cite a post he has made that and the particular term of service it violated.
You might be a Nazi... if you support Donald Trump. Or put another way, here's [businessinsider.com] your [washingtonpost.com] sign [rawstory.com].
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And drinkypoo might be a child molester. The investigation is still ongoing.
And you are definitely a coward, and committing libel. Run along, libelous coward.
Thanks Twitter (Score:1)
Jude Law (Score:2)
There's plenty more where they came from.
Why am I reminded of that scene from Enemy At The Gate?
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There's plenty more where they came from.
Why am I reminded of that scene from Enemy At The Gate?
"Honey? the Visigoths are here. They want to know if you can come out to play?"
dunno why that just popped into my head.
Anyhow, I know everyone is going off on Politics, but I'l bet a lot of these accounts are leftovers from the services that would get followers for you in a weird Twitter popularity contest for some coin.
I'll bet after the purge, Kim Cardassian is no longer the most popular person on Twitter. The family will probably sue Twitter now.
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And how are we going to know whether the US still has a president without it?
But ISIS is still there.... (Score:2)
things that make you go um...
Hypocrites forever (Score:2, Troll)
As long as they fail to shut down Trump's account, they are willfully ignoring their own policies in order to remain relevant. Selective enforcement is always used for covert abuse. Twitter is a Trump supporter.
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The people in charge need to stop listening to these lunatics. Trump doesn't listen to them. That's why I'll vote for him again.
You'll vote for him because you're a racist, and possibly a neo-Nazi. It's impossible to vote for Trump without being deeply, personally racist.
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As long as they fail to shut down Trump's account, they are willfully ignoring their own policies in order to remain relevant. Selective enforcement is always used for covert abuse. Twitter is a Trump supporter.
They wanted to shut Emperor Bonespurs down, but Bob Mueller called and told them he wasn't done collecting evidence yet.
So much for free speech (Score:1)
You don't have it on the internet.
Now you know what these people's true feelings are. They would love the SOVIET UNION.
Keep going! (Score:2)
until they suspend 100% of their accounts. I'm pretty sure violence will drop slightly and people will gain a few IQ points in the process.
Define malicious? (Score:2)